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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
3
A sensational claim recounts Wm Parr Pagland living 152 years with multiple marriages and long work life. James Wright of Spurlock Kentucky touts Electric Bitters as a life extending cure after kidney trouble. The ad-type prose urges readers to try the medicine at 50 cents.
Special cement work for cement block and brick and other jobbing tasks. See Ames Cement Product Co. Mutual phone 468 or leave orders with H. L. Munan Lumber Co., P. C. Flutter, Mer. 24f.
Mrs. T. S. Edwards from Milner Georgia reports that after ten doctors warned of fatal heart trouble, Miles Heart Remedy and Restorative Nervine improved her husband from the first dose. He later regained full charge in 1904 and continued hard work at camp meetings. The notice urges obtaining a bottle and promises a money back guarantee if no benefit.
The article compares Houdin's feats against fanatical marabouts in Algeria with Br Palmer English orientalist born in England and his legendary curse. It recounts Houdin surviving pistol tests and blood spatter, Palmer’s alleged curse after betrayal and secret missions, and how the curse supposedly caused violent fates among those who heard it.
A Gladwin Michigan man paid doctors over $400 for a running ulcer with no benefit. Bucklen's Arica Salve cured the ulcer and fever sores. It also claims to cure boils felons eczema salt rheum piles burns scalds cuts corns and is 25 cents at druggists.
The ad claims a large user base for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a family tonic. It promises spring wellness if taken this month and offers a money back guarantee. Price listed as 35 cents by J. EB. Cagwin.
A World article tracing the historical use of death by drowning from France under Henri IV through Roman and German practices to eighteenth century Edinburgh and Albanian methods. It notes “last baptism” in Teuton lore and brutal variations, including imprisoned victims with animals and water-torture linked to female criminals.
An advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as an effective laxative tonic improving digestion and cleansing the blood. It claims to balance stomach liver and kidneys, strengthen nerves, and cure constipation dyspepsia biliousness jaundice headache chills and malaria. Available at druggists for 25 cents.
An architect states that all London public buildings now use fog filters essential for clean air. He describes the city’s yellow brown fog from coal fires causing irritation and headaches and explains air is drawn through white filter curtains that trap the haze but require hourly changing as they become black from soot.
A color sergeant in a Highland company calls the roll for Angus Mackay with no reply and marks him absent. John Jones answers with a squeaky voice, but is marked absent as the sergeant questions the voice and sincerity.
A New York Times quip features a man claiming women should be better orators than men because they imitate Demosthenes. He recalls Demosthenes practicing with pebbles in his mouth, while a woman dismisses him as a mean old thing during her toilet.
A visitor with uplifting pamphlets asks to leave tracts at a cottage. The resident replies to point heel marks toward the stairs, turning a simple outreach into a quip about method and reception.
A jokey exchange from the Cleveland Leader centers on an artist selling a painting to recover the money for a pawned coat. The friend asks about the coat value and the painter notes the sale nearly covered the coat, highlighting thrift and wit.
A short quotation from Lowell notes that fortunes rise and fall with changing circumstances and that no era remains fixed in one direction.
An article notes Aesop fables and ancient drawings reveal a taste for whimsy. Examples include a cat in a New York museum scene, geese driven by a cat, wolves with crooks directing goats, and a Turin papyrus sequence with animals in comic roles and a pharaoh rat carriage.
An insurance company physician praises annuities as life prolonging. He notes many policyholders over eighty or ninety remain active after starting annuities, claiming worry about poverty shortens lifespans more than disease. Annuities allegedly release older people from fear and age.
The making of bamboo hats is a chief native industry in the East Indies with children often more skilled than mothers at weaving strips and designs. Bamboo stalks are transported to factories by tying ends, spreading them, placing a crosspiece, and carrying them on the shoulders.
A humorous dialogue from Fliegende Diat says a club member woke with a swollen head. A neighbor suggests pouring water over him, his wife says she tried and he only asked for an umbrella.
An advertisement extols Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring tonic for all, claiming it restores well being and vitality. Sold in tea or tablet form for 35 cents by J. E. Cagwin.
The thorny devil Moloch horridus ranks among Australia’s lizards for its ugliness. It measures about seven inches, has a flat body, small head, and cylindrical tail. It bears tubercles and spines and is harmless despite its fearsome look. It digs sand with strong claws and feeds mainly on ants.
A young lady asks about firmness and obstinacy and her fiancé replies that firmness is a noble trait in women while obstinacy is a fault in men. The piece is a light social quip about gendered behavior amid a column on wanted bargains.
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